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 | By toggling photo-overlay in and out one can move oil platforms around the pass. |  | 09/27/2005 | 737 | 
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 | Hurricane Rita made landfall at 2:30 CDT (0730 UCT) on the extreme southwest coast
of Lousiana between Sabine Pass and Johnson´s Bayou.
Maximum sustained winds were near 120 mph with higher gusts. |  | 09/25/2005 | 697 | 
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 | In former times, Yumenguan Pass (Jade Gate Pass) was called Small Square City. Why was its name changed? There is an interesting story about Yumenguan Pass that answers this question.
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 | India, China reopen Silk Road pass.
NATHU LA, China-India Border - Asian giants India and China opened a Himalayan pass to border trade on Thursday, 44 years after a frontier war shut down the ancient route. |  | 07/25/2006 | 442 | 



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 | The Altamont Pass Wind Farm located in the Altamont Pass of the Diablo Range in Central California. It is a one of the earliest wind farms in the United States. The wind farm is composed of over 4900 relatively small wind turbines of various types, making it at one time the largest farm in the world in terms of capacity. Altamont Pass is still the largest concentration of wind turbines in the w... |  | 08/17/2005 | 370 | 



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 | The "stepstone" for all potential prospectors during the 1898 Klondyke Gold Rush. People arrived by ship in Skagway, AK, than had to schlepp around 100s of kg of supplies up the valley and up the pass. On top of the pass (the border between Alaska and B.C.) there was a weigh scale where Canadian official checked if goldrushers had enough supplies to last one winter in the Yukon. They ... |  | 08/21/2005 | 263 | 



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 | The Torugart Pass is a pass in the Tian Shan mountain range. Elevation: 3,752 m (12,310 ft).
The pass is the main border crossing between the People's Republic of China (Xinjiang province) and Kyrgyzstan. The nearest large Chinese city is Kashgar, the nearest Kyrgyz city is Naryn. The road on the Kyrgyz side, from Torugart to Naryn and then to Balykshy and Bishkek, is narrow and ... |  | 08/05/2006 | 432 | 



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 | This pass is on the Yunnan-Tibet Highway.
Many switchbacks.
This side :
start 2746 metres / 9049 feets.
finish 4637 metres / 15237feets
length 45 kms / 28 miles |  | 06/26/2006 | 246 | 



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 | Stevens Pass Ski Area. Fifty miles east of Seattle, WA.
USGS aerial photo (1 meter resolution) overlay with chairlift positions.
Updated to include webcams and snow report.
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 | This is the world´s highest border crossing at 4760m between Pakistan and China on the spectacular Karakorum Highway. The actual Immigration to China is 70k down the road in Tashkurgan, but there are Chinese and Pakistani officials right there on the Pass. |  | 08/17/2005 | 495 | 



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 | hi-res 4/12/08 image of backcountry skiers at Hatcher Pass, Alaska |  | 11/23/2009 | 17 | 



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 | The (in)famous pass on the border of Pakistan and Afghanistan, linking Peshawar, Pakistan (where Rambo demonstrated his famous "blue light" ) and Jalalabad, Afghanistan. This is the "main" gate into Afghanistan. |  | 08/21/2005 | 537 | 



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